Gore, 49, was scheduled to be executed for the 1988 killing of Robyn Novick, a 30-year-old exotic dancer whose naked body was found in a rural part of Miami-Dade County.

He was also sentenced to die for the 1988 murder of Susan Roark, whose body was found a few months later in Columbia County, in northern Florida.

Gore also has been convicted of the attempted murder of another exotic dancer who testified that she was beaten with a rock, choked, raped, stabbed and left for dead. She was attacked two days after Novick disappeared.